Editing Time Team (section)

==Format==
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At the start of the programme, Tony Robinson explains, in an opening "piece to camera", the reasons for the team's visit to the site. During the dig, he enthusiastically encourages the archaeologists to explain their decisions, discoveries and conclusions, while trying to ensure that everything is comprehensible to the archaeologically uninitiated. The site is frequently suggested by a member of the viewing public. ''Time Team'' uncover as much as they can of the archaeology and history of the site in three days.

Excavations are not just carried out to entertain viewers. Robinson claims that the archaeologists involved with ''Time Team'' have published more scientific papers on excavations carried out in the programme than all British university archaeology departments over the same period, and that by 2013, the programme had become the biggest funder of field archaeology in the country.<ref>{{cite web |first=Steve |last=Platt |title=Tony Robinson interview |website=Channel 4 |url=http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/biog_tony_garden.html |access-date=23 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Jade |last=Bremner |title=Tony Robinson on Walking Through History, Time Team and Blackadder |website=[[Radio Times]] |date=28 March 2013 |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-03-28/tony-robinson-on-walking-through-history-time-team-and-blackadder}}</ref>